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The 500 and 1,000 rupee notes are worth around £6 and £12 respectively and are widely used in India.

It’s estimated that the legal tender left in circulation amounts to a combined total of 15 trillion rupees, equivalent to around £180 billion, according to statistics from central bank Deputy Governor R. Gandhi.